![]() ![]() There are deconstructed takes here on standards My Ideal and Thelonious Monk’s Ugly Beauty, both suffused with inquiring, beatless calm. This year’s Forfolks does away with collaborators in favour of self-quoting loops and minimal solo guitar – impressionistic daubings of notes playing out in the space between jazz, ambient and the daily practice of quietly sketching out a tune for oneself. The New Breed (2016) memorialised Parker’s late father last year’s Suite for Max Brown was dedicated to his mother, Maxine. Parker’s third solo album for the International Anthem label is a meditative gem that breaks with the more fully fleshed out style of his two previous outings. B est known as the jazz-facing guitarist in the influential Chicago post-rock outfit Tortoise, Parker, now based in LA, wears many berets: band leader, film composer, unstarry collaborator.
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